Whoops! Bad cache! That's actually supposed to work correctly. There's a standard for web sites to signal which of the request headers affect the returned page. In this case, the Language request header does. Google supports this standard fully. Your proxy cache apparently doesn't, though!
There is actually something similar to what you suggest implemented in Houston. The Houston Real-Time Traffic Map is a project which installed a bunch of sensors for the EZ-Tag (same idea as FastLane) on all of the major freeways (not just toll roads) around the city.
MapQuest integration would be really cool. Even better - extend your car GPS navigation system to get real-time traffic info and use it to compute plans. With central coordination, this could have a dramatic impact on traffic conditions. Possibly even to the point of delaying/reducing the need for road expansions.
I'd buy it, anyway.
One danger: people get the system and use it to tour the city all day gawking at accidents. Yikes!
The time has definitely come for GUI architects to begin the changeover to a resolution independent architecture. When 72 dpi are available, it makes sense to plan things down to the pixel. When 200+ dpi are available, the user should be presented with a completely scalable GUI.
For example, SGI has long provided scalable icons for its IRIX desktop file manager. Apple's new Quartz graphics API and Aqua GUI look like they may have the start of this flexibility. OpenGL may be a good base to work from as well.
As someone who spends way too much time reading text on computer monitors, I look forward to any improvements in their readability!
Tim
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Be isn't worried about "accusations of reverse engineering" regarding Linux or BSD - they are worried that Apple will drag them into court for reverse-engineering Apple hardware. This has nothing to do with the GPL, BSD, APSL or any other sort of license, it has to do with Apple's well-documented belief that they own their hardware even after they've sold it and intend to exert control over what is done with it by the buyer. It is my personal belief that this sort of thing has no legal standing - hardware isn't subject to the same licensing nonsense that software is, but when big corporations like Apple are involved, little guys can be bankrupted in court even if they are in the right. I can definitely sympathize with Be's desire not to piss Apple off. Competing with both Apple and Microsoft is a two-front war. Ouch!
The Be people do acknowledge that reverse-engineering the latest Apple systems would work, with or without cribbing from LinuxPPC. However, they feel that they would be on shaky legal ground if they took that route. Apple hasn't lashed out at the free software people, but they do have a history of litigation and hard-headedness when it comes to other companies.
One minor point I haven't seen mentioned is this: properly packaged and cooled, the chip itself is much less likely to croak than it's external connections. More integration means fewer external connections.
I was really surprised to read that he doesn't make "prettiness" a priority. There are tons of themes out there that make wmaker look beautiful. And with wmakerconf, they are mind-numbingly easy to install. Always pleasant to get a "wow" from a windows-using friend upon seeing my (not even all that fancy!) desktop.
Tim
Has anyone tried this "netomat" out?
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After reading that stuff, I'm inclined to dismiss it as a publicity grab. Non-linear this and I'm-a-rebel that and the-whole-computer-industry-just-doesn'-get-it. On the other hand, having faithfully read Jakob Nielsen's useit.com website about web usability issues, I can certainly see that the browser/page model is hardly without flaw. There aren't any screenshots that I can find on their page, and I'm living (blissfully I might add) in unix-only land right now. Since they only have a windows version available now, could someone comment on it?
This is an excellent point, and one that I think is too rarely mentioned. As thrilling as it is to learn of some new precedent-setting court decision, the courts are almost always too slow and unenlightened to regulate the net and the new "information economy" effectively. Using open, extensible, documented formats for exchange and insisting that others who wish to communicate with you do the same is probably the best way to achieve the freedom of choice we want.
I've found Window Maker to be very well maintained in Debian. (I use the not-quite-released version 2.2, potato.) The core wmaker package works excellently, as does the add-on wmaker-gnome package (to make wmaker more respectful of panel and gmc). I would assume that the wmaker-kde package works just as well. Various dock-apps and wmakerconf are all available as packages, and all kept up to the minute. With apt (debian's advanced front-end to the packaging system), you can easily keep yourself current, as well. With menu, debian's unified root-menu system, packages register (and unregister, if you remove them) entries in the Debian section of the wmaker application menu. Several themes are included, but I believe these are just the ones that are distributed by windowmaker.org in the wmaker-data tarball. For a real theme selection, get wm.themes.org and wmakerconf talking together.
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Whoops! Bad cache! That's actually supposed to work correctly. There's a standard for web sites to signal which of the request headers affect the returned page. In this case, the Language request header does. Google supports this standard fully. Your proxy cache apparently doesn't, though!
MapQuest integration would be really cool. Even better - extend your car GPS navigation system to get real-time traffic info and use it to compute plans. With central coordination, this could have a dramatic impact on traffic conditions. Possibly even to the point of delaying/reducing the need for road expansions.
I'd buy it, anyway.
One danger: people get the system and use it to tour the city all day gawking at accidents. Yikes!
Tim
For example, SGI has long provided scalable icons for its IRIX desktop file manager. Apple's new Quartz graphics API and Aqua GUI look like they may have the start of this flexibility. OpenGL may be a good base to work from as well.
As someone who spends way too much time reading text on computer monitors, I look forward to any improvements in their readability!
Tim
Tim
BTW, this is the last total eclipse of either.
Tim
Until then, you can start x with the command "X -query " to get a graphical login screen on a remote system. I sometimes use this at school.
On the question of using linux to serve up such a screen, try "man xdm" - I think that covers it.
Tim
The Be people do acknowledge that reverse-engineering the latest Apple systems would work, with or without cribbing from LinuxPPC. However, they feel that they would be on shaky legal ground if they took that route. Apple hasn't lashed out at the free software people, but they do have a history of litigation and hard-headedness when it comes to other companies.
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I like PC hardware anyway. Might not be the best quality, but it's cheap and modular. (:
Tim
One minor point I haven't seen mentioned is this: properly packaged and cooled, the chip itself is much less likely to croak than it's external connections. More integration means fewer external connections.
Tim
But until someone can prove it, we will always wonder if maybe P == NP...
Tim
Tim
After reading that stuff, I'm inclined to dismiss it as a publicity grab. Non-linear this and I'm-a-rebel that and the-whole-computer-industry-just-doesn'-get-it. On the other hand, having faithfully read Jakob Nielsen's useit.com website about web usability issues, I can certainly see that the browser/page model is hardly without flaw. There aren't any screenshots that I can find on their page, and I'm living (blissfully I might add) in unix-only land right now. Since they only have a windows version available now, could someone comment on it?
This is an excellent point, and one that I think is too rarely mentioned. As thrilling as it is to learn of some new precedent-setting court decision, the courts are almost always too slow and unenlightened to regulate the net and the new "information economy" effectively. Using open, extensible, documented formats for exchange and insisting that others who wish to communicate with you do the same is probably the best way to achieve the freedom of choice we want.
Tim
Of course, when free software realizes its full potential, expect MSFT to be quite a bit cheaper!
I've found Window Maker to be very well maintained in Debian. (I use the not-quite-released version 2.2, potato.) The core wmaker package works excellently, as does the add-on wmaker-gnome package (to make wmaker more respectful of panel and gmc). I would assume that the wmaker-kde package works just as well. Various dock-apps and wmakerconf are all available as packages, and all kept up to the minute. With apt (debian's advanced front-end to the packaging system), you can easily keep yourself current, as well. With menu, debian's unified root-menu system, packages register (and unregister, if you remove them) entries in the Debian section of the wmaker application menu. Several themes are included, but I believe these are just the ones that are distributed by windowmaker.org in the wmaker-data tarball. For a real theme selection, get wm.themes.org and wmakerconf talking together.